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Susan Coolidge

  

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Susan Coolidge : What Katy Did

In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Beryl Lee Booker      Print: Book

  

Susan M. Coolidge : What Katy Did

'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avonlea", "Tom Sawyer", "Huckleberry Finn", and "The Last of the Mohicans" all created a romantic childhood vision of unlimited freedom and open space. "For me Jo, Beth and Laurie are right at the heart of a permanent unalterable American scene", she wrote, "and I can turn on Louisa M. Alcott and others so powerfully that Nixon and Watergate are completely blacked out".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Lakeman      Print: Book

  

Susan Coolidge : What Katy Did

'I could begin to read one of the books that had been given to me ... and lose myself in another world. [Followed by a list of the books enjoyed].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Eileen Lawrence      

  

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